“I think it’s a big reason why [CBS] bought the pitch,” Instinct creator Michael Rauch told TV Guide after the Instinct panel, regarding the show’s gay male lead.
Shockingly, Instinct is the first hourlong broadcast series on any broadcast network with a gay lead.
He looks at the other shows on the schedule and recognizes that Instinct might be a hard sell to CBS’ audience.
“We’re also a little show because we have a gay male lead, which I think is very non-mainstream,” Rauch tells TV Guide.